WestCycle Subscriber e-News: September 2024
Latest happenings from the peak body for all forms of bike riding in Western Australia.
Can We Make Orrong Orright?
Main Roads WA is consulting stakeholder organisations and the public as it tries to work out how to make Orrong Road right again. Or, at least, less wrong…WestCycle Active Transport Manager Dr Georgia Scott is hopeful…
WestCycle brings big picture to Road Safety Roundtable
WestCycle CEO Wayne Bradshaw was there representing people who ride bikes at the recent Road Safety Roundtable hosted by the WA Government to address the rising road toll.
Spring into Bike Commuting
Check out this helpful article for any women thinking about jumping on a bike and commuting to work this Spring.
56 groups across Australia unite to call for urgent target-based transport reform by 2035
If Australia is serious about decarbonising transport, it must quickly establish strong and effective targets, 56 groups have urged.
WestCycle responds to City of Perth draft Bike Plan 2025-2035
The City of Perth has published a draft Bike Plan that looks forward a decade to 2035. WestCycle has responded and urges people to do the same before Friday, 26 July.
“If you build it they will come”: Unlocking active travel’s potent potential
WestCycle Board Member Ben Swan explains the role WestCycle and WA’s broader bike riding community is playing in creating change away from car-centrism and toward safer, better connected communities.
New Bayswater Station Project – PSP open
Shared path now open between Hamilton Street and Guildford Road in Bayswater The Principal Shared Path along Whatley Crescent between Hamilton Street and Guildford Road is now open. Finishing works will continue over the coming months, with the path remaining accessible for bike riders. See the METRONET project page for more details about the current […]
Armadale Line Shutdown: impacts on bike riders
The Armadale Rail Line will be closed from Monday 20 November 2023 until mid-2025. This will have various implications for bike riders…
Cycling and e-scooters worth 6850 jobs and $2bn to WA
Cycling and e-scooters are responsible for 6850 jobs in WA and contribute about $2 billion directly and indirectly – $18bn nationally – to the economy, a new report says.
